[{"Position":0,"DocId":0,"DocName":"08-0133","FileName":null,"DateUpdated":"\/Date(1266991200000)\/","OpinionNum":null,"Summary":"The Town of Sunset is obligated to pay over to the Sunset Volunteer Fire Department the funds generated pursuant to La. Rev. Stat. 22:1585. The statute also provides that If such funds are not\r\ndistributed to the fire department, the Town of Sunset is to invest such funds in an interest-bearing account and any accrued interest on the investment is to be credited and distributed per capita to the fire department."},{"Position":0,"DocId":0,"DocName":"09-0054","FileName":null,"DateUpdated":"\/Date(1267164000000)\/","OpinionNum":null,"Summary":"The DeSoto Parish Police Jury may use its funds to make improvements on the private driveways of its citizens who are\r\ndetermined, objectively, to be needy."},{"Position":0,"DocId":0,"DocName":"09-0224","FileName":null,"DateUpdated":"\/Date(1267077600000)\/","OpinionNum":null,"Summary":"Because the Town of Independence has a population of less than 7,000, civil service laws are inapplicable to the\r\ntown’s fire and police officers. State law providing for the organization of fire departments is inapplicable to\r\nmunicipalities with less than 13,000 in populations, and is inapplicable to the Town of Independence, as the town has\r\na population of 1,724. The Town of Independence may by ordinance provide organizational guidelines for the fire\r\ndepartment."},{"Position":0,"DocId":0,"DocName":"09-0253","FileName":null,"DateUpdated":"\/Date(1267077600000)\/","OpinionNum":null,"Summary":"The Clerk of Court for the Forty-First Judicial District Court should continue\r\nto book-bind and maintain permanent custody of all notarial records, as\r\nwas required of the Orleans Parish Custodian of Notarial Archives prior to\r\nthe consolidation of the custodian of notarial records, the recorder of\r\nmortgages, and the register of conveyances required by Act 621 of the\r\n2006 Regular Session."},{"Position":0,"DocId":0,"DocName":"09-0255","FileName":null,"DateUpdated":"\/Date(1267077600000)\/","OpinionNum":null,"Summary":"The question of whether an Office of Group Benefits employee can legally give an impartial evaluation of the State Employees Group Benefits Program, and its chief executive office, raises\r\nan ethical issue within the jurisdiction of the Louisiana State Board of Ethics."},{"Position":0,"DocId":0,"DocName":"09-0282","FileName":null,"DateUpdated":"\/Date(1267164000000)\/","OpinionNum":null,"Summary":"Following the specific language of La. Rev. Stat. 38:2211 and 38:2212, if the improvement and renovation project\r\ncontemplated by the Hospital Service District No.2 of the Parish of Beauregard exceeds $150,000, the project must be competitively bid, even where the District’s Lessee and Management Company would undertake the project on the District’s behalf."},{"Position":0,"DocId":0,"DocName":"09-0284","FileName":null,"DateUpdated":"\/Date(1267164000000)\/","OpinionNum":null,"Summary":"Butane or propane used in farm grain dryers by rice farmers constitutes\r\nmaterials under La. R.S. 47:337.10(I)(3)(a); therefore, the Acadia Parish School Board may exclude same from its sales and use tax."},{"Position":0,"DocId":0,"DocName":"09-0308","FileName":null,"DateUpdated":"\/Date(1267077600000)\/","OpinionNum":null,"Summary":"We conclude that absent sufficient credible evidence of discriminatory or other illegal motive that the Pointe Coupee Police Jury would not be subject to criminal liability under La. R.S. 14:134 for hiring a qualified white female applicant instead of the temporary qualified black female\r\nworker who had held the same position for several preceding months."},{"Position":0,"DocId":0,"DocName":"09-0314","FileName":null,"DateUpdated":"\/Date(1267077600000)\/","OpinionNum":null,"Summary":"La. R.S. 42:3.2 which sets limitations on the number of terms a member of a board and commission can serve in Louisiana is to be applied prospectively from the date of August 15, 2008."},{"Position":0,"DocId":0,"DocName":"10-0016","FileName":null,"DateUpdated":"\/Date(1267077600000)\/","OpinionNum":null,"Summary":"Under Act 122 and House Concurrent Resolution No. 236, the Treasurer is properly authorized to transfer monies from the Budget Stabilization Fund to the general fund in order to pay the appropriation from the general fund to the Board of Regents."}]